It is the war memoir to end all war memoirs. Robert Graves's autobiographical masterpiece savages the conduct of the 1914-18 conflict in a searing satire that at once reviles the fighting and reveres the courage and resourcefulness of the servicemen caught up in it. As astonishingly fresh and readable as ever, Goodbye to All That chronicles this highly eccentric soldier-poet's early life from the cruelties and injustices of public school through the unspeakably real horrors and ineffable absurdities he encountered on the Western Front, all the way the brink of a glittering and controversial literary career.

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It is the war memoir to end all war memoirs. Robert Graves's autobiographical masterpiece savages the conduct of the 1914-18 conflict in a searing satire that at once reviles the… Развернуть 

To celebrate ten successful years of the Collector's Library, this everlasting literary diary has been specially devised to mark the occasion. Recorded on each day is an event which took place on the same date in the past concerning a writer whose work is published in the series; a relevant quote accompanies every entry and illustrations from the best-loved titles appear throughout. Because each day is dated, but not named, it is suitable for use in any calendar year as a diary or as a birthday and anniversary log. Being uniform in size with the rest of the Collector's Library, this versatile volume will make an elegant and personal ready-made commonplace-book. Rosemary Gray, who has worked in publishing for many years and has edited a number of collections of short stories, poems and quotations, says that few jobs have given her greater pleasure than compiling this literary diary for the Collector's Library. Illustrated by various artists

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To celebrate ten successful years of the Collector's Library, this everlasting literary diary has been specially devised to mark the occasion. Recorded on each day is an event… Развернуть 

He was ready for more deaths.’ Pinkie Brown, a young gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of vitriol, will kill anyone to stay alive and free. In the first of his major novels, Graham Greene looks into this brutal mind and finds there a yearning for repentance. Brighton Rock (1938) is both a thriller and the study of soul in torment. Pinkie is hunted down both by Ida, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, and by a mysterious power of pity and mercy. Set against seaside amusements and race-track protection rackets, this story, twice filmed, has become one of the classics of modern literature, mapping out the strange border between holiness and savagery. With an Introduction by Professor Richard Greene

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He was ready for more deaths.’ Pinkie Brown, a young gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of vitriol, will kill anyone to stay alive and free. In the first of his major… Развернуть 

The Maltese Falcon is the archetypal ‘hardboiled’ detective story, rich in exotic characters, dark exciting action and featuring of the greatest of all cool tough private eyes, Sam Spade. Written in 1930, the novel has a timeless quality that makes it fresh and exciting for each new generation of readers. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with ne-er do well Floyd Thursby. But when Spade’s partner Miles Archer is murdered while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the mythical jewel-encrusted Falcon, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man and how far can he trust the sexy Miss Wonderley? Dashiel Hammett’s noir classic is written in sharp terse prose that gives a cinematic vividness to the characters and the milieu.

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The Maltese Falcon is the archetypal ‘hardboiled’ detective story, rich in exotic characters, dark exciting action and featuring of the greatest of all cool tough private eyes,… Развернуть 

So magnetically powerful are the words with which Hartley opens his celebrated novel – ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ – that they’ve become part of the lexicon. But the story they encompass is a deeply personal one. An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall – a world of privilege far removed from his own – for the scorchingly hot summer of 1900 appears innocuous, but Leo soon finds himself drawn into a dangerous, deceitful world of adult intrigue when asked to act as a go-between for two illicit lovers. The tragedy that ensues will reverberate for decades to come.

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So magnetically powerful are the words with which Hartley opens his celebrated novel – ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ – that they’ve become part… Развернуть 

Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с шелковым ляссе и трехсторонним золотым обрезом.

This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Awards.

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Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с шелковым ляссе и трехсторонним золотым обрезом.

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This is Fitzgerald's first novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

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This is Fitzgerald's first novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student… Развернуть 

Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в тканевом переплете и суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе.

The north and south of the title are the Satanic mills of the industrial north and the leisured life of London society and rural Hampshire. When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and South depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.

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Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в тканевом переплете и суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе.

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